Word of the Day: Performance Anxiety

Can appliances smell fear? Do they somehow know that in two days they will be expected to perform at their absolute peak? Does the pressure cause them to break down within 24-hours of showtime?  I think so.
Last year, two days before Thanksgiving, my oven died. I bought a new one – a floor model – [...]

Word of the Day: Meh

“How was school?”
“Meh.”
“Do you want oatmeal for breakfast?”
“Meh.”
Little did I know that my kids’ mono-sylabic responses were on the cutting edge of English linguistics. That’s right. “Meh” is now in the dictionary.  Harper Collins has announced that for the 30th anniversary edition, they are including “meh ” – right between megaton and meiosis.

Collins has been [...]

Word of the Day: Acceptance

Last night I went to Parent/Teacher conferences at the high school. While I waited in the hallway for my five minutes with Lewis’ teachers, I chatted with other parents and realized that even though my son is only a sophomore, I am woefully behind in the whole college-prep thing.
“Did he take the PSAT’s? We hired [...]

Word of the Day: Dogged

My husband wanted to name our son Chester. “It sounds like a dog’s name,” I said. So we named our son Lewis. Of course there’s a dachshund down the street named Lewis, so what do I know?
Then, seven years ago, we went to the pound and fell in love with a fuzzy little mutt.  Again, [...]

Word of the Day: Caffiend

Like much of America, I stayed up late watching the election returns, weeping at Obama’s moving acceptance speech and wondering what campaign official decided that the McCains should all wear yellow.
As a result of my addiction to the campaign coverage, I was up until after 1am and got up at 6am. (Call me a bad [...]